[Omaha.pm] Safely instantiate (or not) a class that may or may notexist?

[Jay Hannah]

Kenneth Thompson wrote:
> Any chance this approach might work?
> 
>   my $obj = ref("${namespace}::${partner_id}::OutboundHeader");
>   my $class = $obj || "";
>   return 1 if $class
>   
> (Completely untested, and off the top of my head...)

I don't think so. AFAIK ref doesn't ever instantiate anything.

perldoc -f ref

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